{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/222",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1990",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the average price in respect of a month shall be the amount obtained by dividing the total of the sale prices shown in the returns by the total number of animals shown in those returns to have been sold.\n(2) Where in respect of any month, returns in respect of all the markets specified in paragraph 1 above have not been furnished to the Minister by the fifteenth day of the following month—\n(a) where returns have been so furnished in respect of five or more of the specified markets the average price in respect of the month shall be the amount obtained by dividing the total of the sale prices shown in the returns by the total number of animals shown in those returns to have been sold;\n(b) in any other case the average price in respect of that month shall be the most recent average price calculated in accordance with this paragraph.\n(3) The Minister shall take such steps as he considers appropriate for the purpose of bringing to the notice of persons concerned the average price in respect of each month and the total number of animals and the total sale price on which the calculation of such average price was based.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/222/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:28:16.241623+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}